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...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rubber | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...laurels in haste to the University of California. Those inconsiderate, Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHER AND BLATHER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...giant food-products consolidation originated as a merger between the Rieck-McJunkin Co. of Pittsburgh and the Hydrol Co. of Chicago-each the largest ice cream distributor in its section. At the present time the consolidation has acquired 17 subsidiary companies. Of these, Sheffield Farms is the most important. One of the largest U. S. distributors of milk and other dairy products, it operates, mostly in New York City 1,959 retail and 32 wholesale routes involving the handling of 900,000 quarts of milk daily. Other holdings of Sheffield Farms include five large farms for the production of certified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cow | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...know Liggett's Drug Store. Enticing the eye (as any good drug store should) with its walls of water-clear glass, its ranked bottles of yellow and orange and blue, its showcases piled with new brushes, sponges, utensils of vanity, the mingled sight of prophylactics, vanilla ice cream sodas, popular face powders, this Liggett's establishment is repeated in dozens of U. S. cities, always neat, always glittering, always the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Liggett's | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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